Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend at the first Red Bull LAN of 2012, the best of the best eSports athletes proved that training, not the luck of the Irish, is the key to reaching the gaming pot of gold....

The latest Red Bull LAN gets underway today in Santa Monica, with 12 of the best Halo players now joined by 12 top StarCraft II players to comprise the most comprehensive gaming training camp around....

David “Walshy” Walsh

Best known by his gamertag, “Walshy” has led his teams to multiple Major League Gaming (MLG) championships with masterful strategies, thrilling gameplay, and outside-the-box thinking. Gamers commit his tactics to memory the way chess addicts study the masters of old.

Ian “Enable” Wyatt

Wyatt will be one of the players helping lead his team, Status Quo - a group of players with similarly Wu-Tang-esque names like Ace, FlamesworD25, and Assault - into a first-round battle against the dark-horse pick of the tourney, Dynasty.